'He was always looking to make you smile. And that's one of the things we loved most about him.' Family and friends remember Jayland Walker, who was fatally shot after fleeing police during a traffic stop in Akron, Ohio.
Walker was a"soft-spoken" and"funny" young man, his family said. Whenever he entered a room, he greeted his relatives with hugs and kisses and"I love yous."
He was also hard-working and ambitious. Walker, a DoorDash driver, hoped to run his own delivery business one day, Roddray Walker said. Those sentiments were echoed by Brian Turner, who was a dean of students at Buchtel when Walker attended. Turner said Walker never got in trouble. "I used to call Jayland almost all the time, and I can't call him anymore. This is really hard for me," Whatley said, breaking down in tears.
Demonstrators gather outside Akron City Hall to protest the killing of Jayland Walker, shot by police, in Akron, Ohio, July 3, 2022.The two had just started discussing wedding plans and were in the process of buying a home together when Jaymeisha was killed in a hit-and-run on May 28 on Interstate 71 in Warren County in Southwest Ohio. Shalesa Beasley said she was traveling to Kentucky with Jaymeisha and her other daughter, Jazzimine, when a semi-truck rear-ended their van.
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